Sibyl Moon Games: Carolyn vs. the Data Serialization Formats

My current C# project involves a great deal of data and some fairly complicated object structures, which I save to file and reload every time I start the program.

I’ve been saving and loading with .NET binary serialization, which works wonderfully right up until I want to make changes … Keep reading →

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but what have I turned to recently?

So, it's been a while, faithful old gamebook / hyperfiction blog. Did I convert all the branching narratives? Looking forward to crossing that one off my list, but we're not there yet. Not quite. Have I reported on all the new works? Not even close. Life got complicated, free time took a hit and I had to withdraw to a core two primary blogs, leaving my extended projects, including this

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Emily Short: Spring Thing 2015: Toby’s Nose (Chandler Groover)

The premise of Toby’s Nose is that you are Toby, a dog belonging to Sherlock Holmes, and your task is to sniff out a murderer from a roomful of suspects. There are quite a few possible suspects to choose from, … Continue reading →

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Web Interactive Fiction: Quixe-Channels

Since this is the inaugural post, I wanted to get right to the most important aspect of my new work, which is developing new tools to help authors build interactive fiction for the browser. This work will revolve around a fork of Andrew Plotkin’s quixe virtual machine, a Glulx implementation in JavaScript. The fork is […]

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